Hugo Wolf and the Wagnerian Inheritance
- Author: Glauert, Amanda
Glauert's illustrative and analytical detail is always subordinate to the energy and clarity of her argument. And that argument itself is truly deductive: it leaps out from an honest, keen-eared... — More…
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Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. 'Music of the future'? The nature of the Wagnerian inheritance
- 2. 'Wagner of the Lied'? Wolf as critic of Wagner and Wagnerism
- 3. Small things can also enchant us - Wolf's challenge to nineteenth-century views of song
- 4. 'Poetry the man, music the woman'? Wolf's reworking in his Moerike songs of Wagner's aesthetics of words and music
- 5. The integrity of musical language - questions of form and meaning in Wolf's Goethe songs
- 6. The Wolfian perspective - comparisons with the songs of Strauss and Mahler
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.